The Complete Shakespeare

The complete works of Shakespeare in your pocket. Enhanced with on-device Apple Intelligence to explain any passage in plain modern English.

Shakespeare's complete works — 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and every narrative poem — in a clean, native iOS reader designed to feel like Apple built it.

Read every play in full, navigate by act and scene, browse the sonnets by first line, and follow the long narrative poems as continuous, scrollable pages. The reading experience uses Apple's typography, Dynamic Type, and the iOS edit menu; with no clutter, no ads, nothing to log into.

Select any passage with iOS's standard text selection and tap "Explain" in the menu to get just that line or speech explained, with proper context: the speaker, the scene, the surrounding lines.

Everything happens on-device. There are no accounts, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. One price, one app, the complete canon.

Search every line of every work — find "wherefore art thou Romeo" or "to be or not to be" instantly across 114,000+ lines.

Includes the complete plays (Tragedies, Comedies, Histories, Romances), all 154 Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, A Lover's Complaint, and The Passionate Pilgrim. Source texts are public domain editions.

Requires iPhone with Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or later) for the Explain feature. The reader, search, and complete library work on every iOS 26 device.